Once my family and I sneaked up to a mother Pileated teaching her baby how to peck for bugs in a tree. He saw us but she didn’t and when he looked our way she whacked him on the head for not paying attention to her lesson. They can bore deeply into your favorite tree and yank large chunks from it while foraging for ants and beetles. They also love pecans and walnuts, but who doesn’t? Nesting up to 85 feet above ground, they produce one annual brood of three to eight little Woody Woodpeckers but their calls are not like the cartoon character, they make a yucka, yucka, yucka sound that changes in its cadence, pitch, and loudness.